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They'll be kind of ropy when they're done, at which point you should take them off the heat.

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Quick take

of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

adjective

forming viscous or glutinous threads

adjective

(British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ropy.

adjective

of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

adjective

forming viscous or glutinous threads

adjective

(British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

Example sentences

They'll be kind of ropy when they're done, at which point you should take them off the heat.

That is what I felt the TV adaptation brought, along with ropy directing and scripting.

The bug tracker... actually works pretty well, but it needs a lot of setup before it looks and feels anything other than ropy.

No wonder their financials look ropy.> Didn't we beg for the ability to pick and choose what we actually want to pay forErm, no?

I appreciate the rare ones that are faithful, or do depart from the usual tedium that much more as a result, and often forgive other glitches or ropy moments.

Sometimes even for a one-shot job you dive down and write passable code then as you start to tackle the complexities of the problem at hand you realise that the amount of ropy code has just tied your hands and now it gets increasingly harder to wrap your head around your implementation and finally complete the one-shot job.